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English
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""The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant and candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This volume of poetry takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer's troubled gaze. The collection shatters the notion of a still life, and presents the painting in pieces. With invention and irreverence, the poems escape their gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Details from this gallery of lives in shards hide more than they reveal, like fragmented...
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The author's "poems grew out of the fertile soil of southwest Michigan, bursting any and all stereotypes of the Midwest and turning loose characters worthy of Faulkner in their obsession, their suffering, their dramas of love and sex and death. This is the poetry that comes only after the white dress has been blown open--the poetry of necessity, where a wild imagination is the only hope."--Cover p. [4]